Lifshits (Lifschitz) Joya — pianist and teacher.

In 1960 Joya Lifshits graduated from the Jāzeps Mediņš Music College (class of R. Michelson) and then entered the Latvian State Conservatoire (class of Prof. P. Serebryakov). She worked at the Jāzeps Mediņš Music College and at a children's music school as head of the piano department. In the late 1980s she left Latvia.